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Honoka’a residents Miles Okumura and Lynn Higashi have been selected by AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and older, to receive the 2024 AARP Hawai`iAndrus Award for Community Service, the Association’s most prestigious and visible state volunteer award for community service.
The AARP Foundation is recruiting friendly and service-oriented people throughout Hawai`i to join its Tax-Aide volunteer team. Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest free, volunteer-based tax assistance and preparation program. During the 2024 tax season, almost 28,000 volunteers served over 1.7 million taxpayers. Tax-Aide participants saved more than $1.3 billion in refunds and credits.
As it advocates for a paid family-leave bill, AARP Hawai‘i is looking for personal stories about the challenges unpaid caregivers face.
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Learn about the latest research on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and steps you can take to improve your brain health at a free webinar and Facebook Live on Wednesday, March 2nd at 10 a.m.
Noting that Hawai`i is facing a retirement savings crisis, a Legislative task force is recommending the creation of a state-facilitated retirement savings program that will give more than 200,000 Hawai`i workers access to retirement savings at work and address a projected tax and spending shortfall of more than a billion dollars over the next 20 years.
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As the state Legislature gets underway and Congress goes back to work in an election year, AARP Hawai‘i is working to pass legislation to help küpuna by lowering prescription drug prices and helping workers, small businesses and taxpayers save money.
Learn to create spice packets to make Fast, Healthy and Ono South American favorites like empanadas, lamb chops with chimichurri sauce, Brazilian chicken and vegetables and arroz con camarones (shrimp rice) when AARP Hawai`i’s popular Fast, Healthy & Ono cooking webinars resume in February.
In-person AARP Foundation Tax-Aide preparation will start on Oahu and Neighbor Islands in February.
AARP launched the AARP Veterans and Military Spouses Job Center, a new digital platform bringing together valuable information and resources to help Hawai`i’s 112,625 veterans and military spouses compete in today’s job market. The job center includes a new Veterans Career Advantage Course to build on career planning and skills development to help navigate the job market.
AARP Hawai‘i recognized AARP volunteer leader and veterans advocate Vicki Franco with the Andrus Award for Community Service -- the organization’s most prestigious and visible state volunteer award for community service.
AARP Hawai‘i announced that Reverend Tad Iwata of Tenrikyo Honolulu-ko Church was named a runner-up in AARP’s “Show Your Love” Volunteer Contest. An arm of AARP’s Create the Good® program, “Show Your Love” recognizes continuing volunteerism and service in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Princeville, Kauai — AARP Hawai`i, the Rotary Club of Hanalei Bay, and the Princeville at Hanalei Community Association are pleased to open an AARP-Sponsored Outdoor Fitness Park on Kaua`i’s North Shore, a long-term investment in the health of residents.
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